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JOE MAUK SMITH
JOE MAUK SMITH
Pages 292-297
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So in his junior year he declared a major in applied chemistry, the name that Caltech used for its undergraduate chemical engineering program in those days, although it already offered graduate degrees in chemical engineering. Joe remembered the Caltech program 293
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They were the entire Caltech chemical engineering faculty at the time. Joe said that Lacey had a particularly strong influence on his career.
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This was a period of rapid change and Joe hired several new faculty members who would profoundly change chemical engineering at Northwestern. In August 1961, eager to return to California, Joe accepted an offer from the University of California, Davis, to help found a college of engineering.
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While still at Purdue, Joe wrote a second textbook, Chemical Engineering Kinetics, which also became the seminal text in the field, significantly changing the way chemical reaction engineering is taught. Over the years Joe won numerous awards and honors, including most of the major American Institute of Chemical Engineers awards: the R
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Joe and his wife endowed the Joe and Essie Smith Chair in Chemical Engineering in 1996 at UC Davis. The chair is dedicated to the support of outstanding young faculty members.
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